Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "A Farewell to Arms" (1948) | Full Episode

VintageRadioShows.com · Oct 25, 2026 · 59m

NBC University Theater brought the great novels to radio from Hollywood, with film stars in the leads. This hour is Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," adapted by Ernest Kinoy, starring John Lund as Lt. Frederic Henry, an American ambulance officer on the Italian front in the First World War, and Lurene Tuttle as Catherine Barkley, the English nurse he meets through his friend Rinaldi. What starts as a wartime flirtation becomes a love that outlasts his wounding, the chaos of the retreat, and a desperate escape to Switzerland, until the war's logic catches up with them anyway. First…